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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
prevailing iniquity. Will God’s commandment-keeping people be
carried away with the prevailing iniquity? Will they be tempted,
because universal scorn is placed upon the law of God, to think
less of that law which is the foundation of His government both in
heaven and in earth? No. To His church His law becomes more
precious, holy, honorable, as men cast upon it scorn and contempt.
Like David they can say, “They have made void Thy law. Therefore
I love Thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. There-
fore I esteem all Thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and
I hate every false way.”
The church militant is not now the church triumphant; but God
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loves His church and describes through the prophet how He opposes
and resists Satan, who is clothing the children of God in the blackest
and most defiled garments, and pleading for the privilege of destroy-
ing them. The angels of God were protecting them from the assaults
of the enemy. The prophet says:
“And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist
him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan;
even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this
a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with
filthy garments, and stood before the Angel. And He answered and
spake unto those that stood before Him, saying, Take away the filthy
garments from him. And unto him He said, Behold, I have caused
thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change
of raiment. And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head. So
they set a fair miter upon his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the Angel of the Lord stood by. And the Angel of the Lord
protested unto Joshua, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If thou
wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge, then thou
shalt also judge My house, and shalt also keep My courts, and I will
give thee places to walk among these that stand by.”
False Teachers to be Shunned
When men arise, claiming to have a message from God, but
instead of warring against principalities and powers, and the rulers
of the darkness of this world, they form a hollow square, and turn the